The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general.

Nothing is more irredeemably irrelevant than bad science.

Though we explore in a culturally-conditioned way, the reality we sketch is universal.

It is folly to use as one's guide in the selection of fundamental science the criterion of utility. Not because (scientists)... despise utility. But because. .. useful outcomes are best identified after the making of discoveries, rather than before.

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good.

Science never gives up searching for truth, since it never claims to have achieved it.

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience.